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2005
8th Annual International Congress
Mediterranean Studies Association
Sicily, Europe & the
Mediterranean
Universitá degli Studi di Messina
Messina, Italy
May 25-28, 2005
Special
Program: Antichi Stati italiani, la Sicilia e l’Europa mediterranea in età
moderna
sponsored by Dipartimento di Storia e Scienze
sociali,Università di Messina:
Session 1.
Chair:
Maria Antonietta Visceglia,
President of the Italian Society of Modern History
“The
Mediterranean from the Middle to the Modern Age: Ancient and Modern Kingdoms between History and Myth”
David Abulafia,
University of Cambridge, England
“Le rotte
mediterranee tra Occidente e Oriente, da Cristoforo Colombo alla guerra dei
Trent’anni”
Francesca Cantu,
Università di Roma Tre
“La Sicilia e la
battaglia di Lepanto”
Angelo Sindoni,
Università di Messina
“Nuovi ordini
religiosi in Sicilia dal Cinque al Seicento e relazioni col sistema imperiale
spagnolo”
Carmen Salvo, Università
di Catania
“Politica di
potenza e fortificazioni costiere nell’Italia spagnola dal Cinque al Seicento”
Mirella Mafrici,
Università di Salerno
“Messina y la
política mediterránea de la España en el siglo XVII”
Luis Ribot Garcia,
Universidad de Valladolid, Spain
“Conversioni di
ebrei e di musulmani nello Stato pontificio in età moderna”
Marina Caffiero,
Università “La Sapienza,” Roma
“La Calabria dal
Cinque al Seicento: risorse, conflitti, classi sociali”
Pino Caridi, Università
di Messina
Session
2.
Chair: Guido Pescosolido,
Dean of Humanities Faculty, Università “La Sapienza,” Roma
“España y los
cambios dinasticos en Italia al principio del siglo XVIII”
Antonio Álvarez Ossorio
Alvariño, Universidad de Madrid
“Lo Stato di
Milano e gli equilibri mediterranei nel XVIII secolo”
Cinzia Cremonini,
Università Cattolica, Milano
“La politica
mediterranea dell’impero austriaco e i regni dell’Italia meridionale nel
periodo dell’assolutismo illuminato”
Elena Riva, Università
Cattolica, Milano
“La Revolución
Francesa, España y Italia”
Manuel Moreno Alonso,
Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
“Il Mediterraneo
e il Mezzogiorno d’Italia dalle insorgenze rivoluzionarie all’età napoleonica”
Anna Maria Rao,
Presidente della Società Italiana del secolo XVIII
“La Sicilia e la
Bolla della Sacra Crociata”
Raffaele Manduca,
Università di Messina
“Mezzogiorno
d’Italia e banditismi mediterranei dal Sette all’Ottocento”
Franco Gaudioso,
Università di Lecce
“Gli inglesi, la
Sicilia e le nuove rotte commerciali dal protettorato alla vigilia dell’unificazione
italiana”
Michela D’Angelo, Università di Messina
1.
The Mediterranean Stage: Features of the
Performance in the “Great Lake”
Chair: Cosimo Cucinotta, Università di Messina
“Peace and War Theatres: Turkish,
Christians, and Renegades in Italian Performance from the 16th to the 18th
Centuries”
Dario Tomasello, Università di Messina
“Archetipi e maschere: una lettura di
Pulcinella”
Francesco Barone, University of Messina
“Mimì Aguglia e il teatro siciliano come
simbolo di mediterraneità”
Stefania Traviano, Università di Messina
2. Shakespeare and the Dialectics of Outside and Inside
Chair: Susan O. Shapiro, The University of Kansas, Lawrence
“Hamlet’s Closets and Hamlet’s Closets”
David M. Bergeron, The University of Kansas, Lawrence
“‘Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart’: Lear’s Dogs and the ‘Mystery of Things’ in Shakespeare’s King Lear”
Susan O. Shapiro
“Mystic Shakespeare”
David Ruiter, University of Texas-El Paso
“Singularity and Equality in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night: Derrida’s Concept of Hospitality and the Enactment of Romantic Comedy”
Richard Raspa, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
3. Heavy Metal Islam
Chair: Mark Levine, University of California, Irvine
“Heavy Metal Islam”
Mark Levine
[title coming]
Armando
Salvatore, [affiliation]
[title coming]
Reda Zine, [affiliation]
[title coming]
Sarah Joseph, [affiliation]
[title coming]
Sheikh Anwar al-Ethaki, [affiliation]
4. Il mediterraneo di Vincenzo Consolo: dalla
crisi del modello Omerico alla resistenza dell'immaginazione antropologica
Chair: Norma Bouchard, University of Connecticut, Storrs
“A Discussion with
Vincenzo Consolo”
Massimo Lollini, University of Oregon; Norma Bouchard; Vincenzo Consolo
“I Viaggi del Moderno Odisseo: Vincenzo
Consolo testimone del nostro tempo”
Massimo Lollini, University of Oregon, Eugene
“The Writer as Archeologist: Vincenzo Consolo’s Mediterranean Ruins”
Norma Bouchard
5. A Bridge to the 21st Century: Italian Writers from 1950s to Today
Chair: Giose Rimanelli, State University of New York at Albany
“Amore,
stupore e risentimenti: L’Italia vista da Giose Rimanelli”
Antonio
Vitti, Wake ForestUniversity
“A
Journey in illo tempore in Giose
Rimanelli’s Il Ritorno”
Sheryl Lynn Postman, University of Massachusetts Lowell
“Italian Neodialect Poetry: Italian Dialects from Common Speech to Literary Languages”
Luigi Bonaffini, Brooklyn College, New York
6.
Medieval and Early Modern Literature: Body Parts
Chair: Emily C. Francomano, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
“Metonymical Hands in Early French Literature”
Susan Rosenstreich, Dowling College
“The Missing Foreskin: Anti-Semitic Poetry in the Court of Isabel I of Castile”
Barbara F. Weissberger, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
“Sins of the Tongue: The Inquisitorial Trials of Cristóbal Duarte Ballester”
Ronald Edward Surtz, Princeton University, New Jersey
“The Hands of the Girl without Hands”
Emily C. Francomano
7.
Satie’s Parade
Chair: Juan LaManna, University of New York at Oswego
“Picasso’s Roman Holiday: Parade and the Classical Spirit”
Beth S. Gersch-Nesic, New York Arts Exchange
“The Music of Satie’s Parade”
Juan LaManna
“Parading with Massine”
Ligia Pinheiro, Wittenberg University, Ohio
8. Remembering/Recovering Europe’s Islamic Past, I
Chair: Karla Mallette, Northwestern University, Evansto, Illinois/American University of Beirut, Lebanon
“Ornamenting the World: Contemporary Trends and Institutionalization of Nostalgia”
Gregory Hutcheson, University of Louisville, Kentucky
“What’s in a Name? The Case of Alborayque”
Dwayne E. Carpenter, Boston College, Massachusetts
“The Mentality of Reconquista and Early Conquistadors”
Hernán G. H.Taboada, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
9.
Remembering/Recovering Europe’s Islamic Past, II
Chair: Gregory S. Hutcheson, University of Louisville, Kentucky
“Juan Andrés and the Muslim Origins of Europe’s Modernity”
Roberto Dainotto, Duke University
“Roger II of Sicily: Rex, Basileus and Khalif?: Identity, Politics and Propaganda in the Cappella Palatina”
Karen Britt, University of Louisville
“Romantics, Nationalists, and the Arab Past in Malta”
Karla Mallette, Northwestern University/American University of Beirut
10. Remembering/Recovering Europe’s Islamic Past, III
Chair: Karla Mallette, Northwestern University/American University of Beirut and Gregory S. Hutcheson, University of Louisville
Position Paper: “Recovering the Traces: The Contemporary Arab Diaspora and Europe’s Islamic Past”
Mohamed-Salah Omri,, Centre for Mediterranean Studies, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, Exeter, United Kingdom
11. La Sicilia ed il
Mediterraneo orientale tra la tarda età del Bronzo ed il periodo arcaico
Chair: David John Blackman, Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents, Oxford
“Oltre la Grecia: le relazioni tra Sicilia e Mediterraneo orientale in età
post-micenea”
Massimo Cultraro, CNR-IBAM, Catania
“La Sicilia nel circuito commerciale arcaico: Il caso della ceramica
greco-orientale”
Antonella Pautasso, CNR-IBAM, Catania
“Naxos
tra l’Egeo e la Sicilia”
Maria Costanza Lentini, Soprintendenza Beni
Culturali Ambientali di Messina
12. Sicilian Migration and North Africa (18th-20th
century)
Chair: Salvatore Speziale, University of Messina
“Siciliani e genti del Sud nella colonizzazione libica (1911-1943)”
Federico Cresti, University of Catania
“La colonizzazione agricola italiana nel
protettorato tunisino: poderi siciliani oltre confine?”
Daniela Melfa,
University of Catania
[title coming]
Michel Brondino,
Director of Encyclopedie de la Méditerranée
[title coming]
Julia Clancy-Smith, University of
Arizona, Tucson
[title coming]
Marta Petricioli, University of
Florence
Paradiso o via di fuga: clandestini siciliani
verso sud
Salvatore Speziale
13. Conjuring Tempests
Chair: Daryl Palmer, Regis University, Denver, Colorado
“Conjuring Giorgione’s Three Philosophers”
Alan Hart, University of Akron, Ohio
“Conjuring Musical Tempests”
Harry Davidson, Duke University
“Of Souls and Tempests in the Plays of William Shakespeare”
Daryl Palmer
14. Economic Agents in the Western
Mediterranean in the 15th
Century
Chair:
Enrico Pispisa, Università degli Studi di Messina
“Catalina Llull y Çabastida: A Catalan Merchant-Woman in Eastern Sicily at the End of the Fifteenth Century”
Gemma Teresa Colesanti, CNR-IBAM, Naples
“Domestic Trade and Rights of Passage in the Kingdom of Naples: Economic Integration and Royal Authority in the Fifteenth Century”
Eleni Sakellariou, University of Ioannina, Greece
“Man of the Pope, Man of the King: Guillerm de Fonollet, a Catalan Merchant in Mediterranean Politics and Trade during the Fourteenth and the Fifteenth Centuries”
Roser Salicrú i Lluch, Institucio
Mila i Fontanals, Barcelona, Spain
“An Emblematic Member of the Urban Patriciate in Fifteenth-Century Sicily: Pietro Burgio, Estate Manager, Merchant, Nobleman”
Francesco
Paolo Tocco, Università degli Studi di Messina
15. Performance,
grafismo y constructivismo en la vanguardia hispana
Chair:
Rosa Sarabia, University of Toronto, Canada
“Performance,
fotografía e historia: la cena de trajes y figures de época, un banquete de
máscaras en los anos de la vanguardia”
María Soledad Fernández Utrera, University of British Columbia
“Imagen
y texto en la vanguardia humorística—El grafismo de Jardiel en su contexto”
Mechthild Albert, Universität des
Saarlandes
“Maruja
Mallo, Ser o No Ser: Su obra de madurez en el panorama internacional”
Carolina Erdocia Castillejo, Museo
Guggenheim, Bilbao
“Contructivismo
y abstracción: La urbe desfigurada de Torres García”
Rosa Sarabia
16. Mediterranean Harbors as Bastions of Hygiene and
Sanitation
Chair: Giuseppe Restifo, Università di Messina
“Legal Efforts to Regulate Maritime Health in Early Modern Genoa”
Giovanni Assereto, University of Genoa
“Sanitary
Espionage”
Paolo Preto, University of Padova
“Sanitary Defense in the Mediterranean ca. 1900”
Daniel Panzac, University of Marseille—Aix-en-Provence, France
“Venetian Lazarets and the International Health Policy Pattern of the ‘Serenissima’”
Nelli-Elena Vanzan Marchini, Italian Sanitary and Hospital History Center of the Veneto
17. Decorative and Figurative Patterns in the Mediterranean during the 19th-20th Centuries: Their Diffusion through Contemporary Journals
Chair:
Paola Valenti, Università di Genova
“Italian Journals of the 19th and 20th Centuries as Distributors of International Patterns for Figurative Art”
Maurizia Migliorini, Università degli Studi di
Genova
“Archaism and Mediterranean Patterns in European Sculpture during the 19th-20th Centuries”
Leo Lecci, Archivio d'Arte Contemporanea dell'Università di Genova
“The Circulations of International Decorative Patterns in Italian Architecture during the 19th-20th Centuries: A Consideration of the Specialized Contemporary Journals”
Paola Valenti
18. Mediterranean Cities
Chair: Elina
Carmelina Gugliuzzo,
University of Messina
“Urban Sociability in Two
Mediterranean Harbor Cities: Valletta and Messina”
Elina Carmelina Gugliuzzo, University
of Messina
“Urban Militias in Precolonial Morocco: The Case of Fez”
Mohamed El Mansour, Faculté des Lettres et
des Sciences Humaines, Rabat,
Morocco
“The Social Behavior in
Harbor Cities as Expressed in Maltese Literature”
Charles
Briffa, University of Malta
“Jewish Converts and Urban
Structures in a Sicilian Mediterranean City after the Expulsion: The Case of
Sciacca”
Nadia
Zeldez, The Hebrew
University of Jerusalem
“Taverns and Coffee
Houses: Lisbon, 1780-1834”
Maria
Alexandra Lousada, University of Lisbon
19. Art History I: 21st-Century Methodology: Theory & Praxis
Chair: Beth S. Gersch-Nesic, New York Arts Exchange
“Reception Theory and Baroque Art: The Classroom Experience”
Mindy Nancarrow, University of Alabama
“Foucault and Epistemology: An Interdisciplinary Course”
M. Rebecca Leuchak, Roger William University
“Judith in Hanukkiot: An Introduction to Semiotics”
Beth S Gersch-Nesic
“The Art in Art History”
Marilyn Stokstad, University of Kansas
20. Art History II: Influences of Ancient Art
Chair: Liana Cheney, University of Massachusetts Lowell
“Ceramic Vessels:
Reconstructing the Greek Pictorial Style”
Dorothy
Joiner, University of Massachusetts Lowell
“Roman Period Theatre
Construction Activity in Sicily: A Theoretical Approach Based on Fernand Braudel’s ‘Three Planes
of Historical Time’”
Zeynep Akture, Middle East Technical University
“Images narratives méditerranéennes chez l’École Ioniènne”
Catherine
Bregianni, Université Ouverte Hellénique, Athens
21. Art
History III: Ecclesiastical Art
Chair: Ellen L. Longsworth, Merrimack College, North Andover, Massachusetts
“God and Community in Eighth-Century Egypt: The al-Muallaqa Lintel in the Coptic Museum, Cairo”
Glenn Peers, University of Texas at Austin
“The Capella Palatina in Palermo: An Example of Fatimid Painting?”
Roberta Marin, Victoria and Albert Museum
“The Nude Wrestling of Herakles in the ‘Islamic’ Ceilings of the Capella Palatina in Palermo”
Lev Kapitaikin, Wolfson College,Oxford University
“An Art Historical Conundrum: Some Questions about the Church of SS. Peter & Paul in Famagusta, N. Cyprus”
Michael J. K. Walsh, Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta, N. Cyprus
22. Art History IV: Iconographical Themes in Art
Chair: Dorothy Joiner, University of Massachusetts Lowell
“The Ambiguity of Saint Agatha’s Breasts in the Middle Ages”
Anna-Maria Gruia, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
“The Model of Youth: Adolescent Figures in Italian Renaissance Art”
Christopher Fulton, University of Louisville, Kentucky
“The Counter-Reformation and the Misteri Procession of Modern Trapani”
Ellen L. Longsworth, Merrimack College, North Andover, Massachusetts
“Caravaggio in Messina”
Liana Cheney, University of Massachusetts Lowell
23. Early Modern Portugal
Chair: Francis A. Dutra, University of California, Santa Barbara
“Lisbon’s Earthquake and Its Demographic Effects on the City and Coastal Regions”
Bill M. Donovan, Loyola College
“The Portuguese Order of Santiago during Spain’s Habsburg Rule (1580-1640)”
Francis A. Dutra
“Rape and Pardon Tales in Early Modern Portugal”
Darlene Abreu-Ferreira, University of Winnipeg
24. Mediterranean Basin: Contemporary Issues
Chair:
“Swaying Images: Atlantic and Mediterranean Images in Portuguese Promotional Posters”
Maria José Gonçalo Gouveia Aurindo, University of Lisbon, Portugal
“Sicily: The Acceptable Face of the Mediterranean?”
Anna Proudfoot, Oxford Brookes University, England
“The ‘Western Lights’: Electrical Hyper-Consumption in Israel”
Matan Shapiro, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
“The Value of Civility and Self-Limitation: Beyond an Ontological Understanding of Civil Society”
Ayhan Akman, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey
25. Film
Chair:
“Kaos, Pirandello and the Mother: Questions of Identity in Taviani’s Sicily”
Francesca Cadel, Yale University
“Sicily and Its Imagined Reality in the Films of Pietro Germi”
Francesca A. Pennisi, Southern Connecticut State University
“Intercultural Italy: History, Sexuality and Difference in Films about Italy”
Phillip Drummond, University of California London Programme
“Due South: The Rediscovery of Ethnicity in Helen de Michiel’s Tarantella”
Cinzia di Giulio, Merrimack College, North
Andover, Massachusetts
26. Music, Dance, and Ballads: New Perspectives
Chair:
Alexandra Mascolo-David, Central Michigan University
“Folk and Urban Musical Elements in Brazilian Four-Hand Piano Literature”
Alexandra Mascolo-David and Rubia Santos, Central
Michigan University
“Statuto
dell’Artista della Danza e Il Diritto alla Differenza”
Anna Mascolo, Lisbon
“L’osso
che canta: varianti siciliane di un tema narrativo euromediterraneo”
Sergio Bonanzinga, University of Palermo
27. The Mediterranean and Latin America
Chair: George Woodyard, University of Kansas, Lawrence
“Italians in Argentina: 100 Years of Theatre”
George Woodyard
“Historical Lunfardo: The Argentine ‘Language of Crime’ since the Italian Immigration”
Anita Herzfeld, University of Kansas, Lawrence
“Augustine, Borges, and an Inhospitable God”
David Johnson, University of Buffalo, New York
“Mexico and the Mediterranean”
Laurence de Looze, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
28. Italian
Connections I
Chair
“The Roman Tradition in Contemporary Mexican Women Writers”
M.
Isela Chiu, Utah State University, Logan
“Elegy, Prophecy, Fraternity: Alonso Gatto’s Poems of Resistance”
Philip Parisi, Utah State
University, Logan
“Incorporating Identity: The Grandmother’s Body in
Tina De Rosa’s Paper Fish”
Marie A. Plasse, Merrimack
College, North Andover, Massachusetts
29. Italian Connections II
Chair:
“Primitive Geographies and
Picturesque Typecasting: Sicilian Performer Mimì Aguglia in New York City at the Turn of the 20th
Century”
Giorgio Bertellini, University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor
“New Orleans’ Sicilians
and their Contributions to the Development of Jazz”
Richard Bonanno, Assumption College,
Worcester, Massachusetts
“Contemporary Sicilian
Cultural Identity in the Literary Tradition of Andrea Camilleri”
Elgin Kirsten Eckert, Harvard University, Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa
30.
Italy in Literature
Chair:
“One Travel to Sicily, Two Travels to Venice [in Shakespeare]”
Patricia Nedelea, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
“Female Readers as
Cultural Agents in Early Modern Italy”
Androniki Dialeti, University of Glasgow,
Scotland
“Madame de Staël and Italy”
James P. Gilroy, University of Denver, Colorado
31.
Mediterranean
Connections I
Chair:
“The Collision of Family
History and World History: An Irishman in the Mediterranean”
Sheila Pelizzon, Middle East Technical University, Ankara
“Minority Anthems and
their Socio-Psychological Significance”
Henriette Javorek, University of Lüneburg
“Jerre Mangione: Un italo-americano di seconda generazione scopre la
Sicilia”
Matteo Pretelli, Università di Trieste
“Acculturation of Greek Americans”
James Koutrelakos, Hunter College
32. Mediterranean
Connections II
Chair
“From Montevideo to Sicily: Garibaldi and the Italian Conquest of the Mediterranean”
Hiber Conteris, University of Arizona
“Little Italy”
Emelise Aleandri, New York City Board of Education
“Santa Lucia: Nordic
Holiday”
Ekaterina Timofeeva, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
“Between the European Ego
and the Arab Alter: Cultural and Linguistic Hybridity
in Sicily and Malta”
Michael V. Diboll, United Arab Emirates University
33. Spanish
Literature and Culture in the 20th Century
Chair: Nina Molinaro, University of Colorado, Boulder
“The Material Occult:
Ramón de la Serna’s Las cosas y’el ello”
Juli Highfill, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
“José Ángel
Mañas’s Historias del Kronen and Spanish
Democracy”
Robert Spires, The University of Kansas, Lawrence
“Remembering the Other:
Ethics, Gender, and Memory in Spain’s ‘Generation X’”
Nina Molinaro
“Not Good-Enough
Mothering: The Turn to Non-Biological Mothers in Almudena
Grande’s Malena es un nombre de Tango”
Lorraine Ryan, University of Limerick, Ireland
34. Greece
Chair: Amikam Nachmani, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
“Desired Times and Places:
Depictions of Greece in Nineteenth-Century Ethnographic Maps”
Lydia Papadakis, Greek Open University, Athens
“Gender and Nationalism:
The Greek Civil War 1946-1949”
Amikam Nachmani
“Foreign Hirelings and
Communist Bandits: The ‘Enemy’ through the Looking Glass of a National Army
Conscript and his Wife during the Greek Civil War, 1947-1949”
Philip Carabott, King’s College London, England
35. Greece
and the Mediterranean
Chair:
“The Nestorians: A Forgotten Link in the Transfer of Greek Science to the West”
Frances Luttikhuizen, University of Barcelona, Spain
“The Greek Community in Early Modern Venice: A Reassessment”
Georgios Plakotos, University of Glasgow, Scotland
“The Ideal of Balkan Unity in European Perspective (1789-1945)”
Loukianos Hassiotis, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece
“Londra-Catania-Atene:
un’insolita rotta del mito di Atene classica: Quarantotto disegni inediti
dell’Acropoli commissionati da Lord Elgin”
Francesca Buscemi, Università di Catania
36. Rome and the Ancient World
Chair:
“Thinking the
Mediterranean: The Perception of Sea and Seafaring in Augustan Rome”
Isto Seppo Tapani Vatanen, University of Turku,
Finland
“All Roads Lead to Rome:
Processes of Hierarchy and Control in the Evolution of Empire”
Jeffrey S. Vail
“The ‘Pandocheion’ in Rabbinic Literature”
Tziona Grossmark, Tel Hai Academic College, Upper Galilee, Israel
37. The
Mediterranean in the Ancient and Medieval Periods
Chair:
“Il
Bacino del Mar Piccolo di Taranto nel quadro della neolitizzazione dell’Italia
sud-orientale e del Vicino Oriente mediterraneo”
Patrizia Lorusso, Università di Bari
“Shape and Sign on the Maps: An Image of Mediterranean Space”
Maria Antonietta
Mariani, Censis Foundation, Rome
“Catullus’ Subtle Criticism of Rome’s Mediterranean Empire”
Susan O. Shapiro, Utah State University, Logan
38. Medieval
Literature
Chair: Anne M. Dropick, Yale University, New Haven,
Connecticut
“Lost Troubadours and Troubadour Ghosts: Dauphin and the Northeast of the Occitan Domain”
Kathryn Klingebiel, University of Hawaii at Manoa
“Nosing Around the Mediterranean: A Medieval Reconstruction of Publius Ovidius Naso”
Susan Small, University of Western Ontario
“Courting Power: Mediterranean Palaces in the Medieval French Imaginary”
Sharon Kinoshita, University of California, Santa Cruz
39. Renaissance
Spanish Literature
Chair:
“Italia y
el humanismo peninsular del XV: Miquel Estela en el manuscrito 229 de la
Biblioteca Nacional de París”
Roxana Recio, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska
“The ‘Biscayan’ in Cervantes and Valdes”
Jaione Markaida, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
“Going to the Sources: The Semitic Origins of the Libro de Buen Amor”
Amy Aronson-Friedman, Valdosta State University, Georgia
“Classical Mediterranean Themes in the Americas: As Used in Ercilla’s La Auracana”
Enrique Martinez Vidal, Dickinson College
40. Sicilian
Connections: Literature and Travel
Chair:
“Islam, Dante, and the Italian Renaissance: The Sicilian Connection”
Abdulla Al-Dabbagh, United Arab Emirates University, Al-Ain
“Nuns Behind Bars: Patrick Brydone’s Sicily as Hispanophe’s Delight”
Tad Tuleja, University of Oklahoma, Norman
“D. H. Lawrence in Sicily and Sardinia”
Hugh Witemeyer, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
41. Medieval
Sicily I
Chair:
“Muslims in Medieval Christian Sicily”
Sarah Davis-Secord, University of Notre Dame, Indiana
“The Middle Ages in the History of Toleration”
Glenn W. Olsen, University of Utah, Salt Lake City
“Brothers in Profit: The De Rogerio Brothers of Late Medieval Palermo”
Mary Lampe, University of Colorado, Boulder
42. Medieval Sicily II
Chair:
“A Family Affair: Sicily and Aragon in the Time of Martino il Giovanne (1391-1409)”
Nuria Silleras-Fernandez, University of California Santa Cruz
“From Calabria Cometh the Law, and the Word of the Lord from Sicily: The Holy Land in the Thought of Joachim de Fiore and Abraham Abulafia”
Harvey J. Hames, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel
“The Genoese Admirals of the Kingdom of Sicily during the 12th and 13th Centuries: State Service and Private Enterprise”
Enrico Basso, Soprintendenza Archivistica
per la Liguria, Genova
43. Medieval History
Chair:
“Federico II: Laic Thought within the Mediterranean Area”
Alessandro Musco, Università degli Studi di
Palermo
“Une
Légitimation Islamique de la Résistance au Tyran au Temps de Jean II de
Castille: Semblanza y Tratado de Gracian
(Ch. VIII)”
Vincent Serverat, Université Stendhal—Grenoble III
“Il
privilegio ai Siciliani di re Levon IV: una pagina delle relazioni tra Aermeni
e Sicilia (1331)
Marco Bais, Università di Bologna
44. Renaissance History I
Chair:
“Nebrija and Valdés: ¿Español o Castellano?”
Maria Jesus Centeno, University of Georgia, Athens
“Sicily and the Grand Strategy of Philip II”
Thomas Dandelet, University of California, Berkeley
“Genoese & Catalans: Trade Disapora in Early Modern Sicily”
Celine Dauverd, University of California, Los Angeles
45. Renaissance
History II
Chair: Gilbert Fernandez, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville
“‘A Continual Tavern in My House’: The Place of Food in Venetian Diplomacy in Early Modern Constantinople”
Eric Dursteler, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
“Inscitia Barbarorum: The Birth of Medical Anti-Arabism in the Renaissance”
Alain Touwaide, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
“Serena the Turk: A ‘Mad Turk’ in a Counter-Reformation Convent”
Danielle Culpepper, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, Virginia
“Mentalities of Decline in the Spanish and Ottoman Empires”
Seven Agir, Princeton University, New Jersey
46. Renaissance
History III
Chair:
“The Euro-Mediterranean Letter Network of the Greek Zygomalas Family in the Second Half of the 16th Century”
Andreas Rhoby, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften Kommission für Byzantinistik, Vienna
“A Jesuit Priest from Sicily, and his Probable Early 17th-century ‘European’ Influence on the Yaqui Indians of Northwestern Mexico”
Elsie Ivancich Dunin, University of California, Los Angeles
“Male Response to Female Illness in Counter-Reformation Spain”
Susan Laningham, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville
“Huellas del Humanismo italiano en la época colonial: el
caso de Peralta Barnuevo”
Enrique Rodrigo, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska
47. Renaissance
History IV
Chair:
“Niccolò Machiavelli and the New Phronesis”
C. Cree Johannsen, The University of Kansas, Lawrence
“Between Doge and Tsar: The Diplomatic Missions of Nicolo Tron and Ivan III”
Karen Lemiski, Arizona State University, Tempe
“Early Modern Mediterranean Trends in Shipbuilding: The Ottoman Tersane in the Mirror of Venetian Arsenale”
Eyup Ozveren and Onur Yildirim, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
48. Spanish Enlightenment
Chair:
“Enlightenment Aesthetics in Spanish and English Prose”
Scott Dale, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
“Bartolomé de las Casas and the Re-making of the Spanish Patria during the Enlightenment”
Santa Arias, Florida State
University
“Spain’s Mediterranean Consciousness and the 18th-Century Exploration of the Pacific Ocean”
Rainer F. Buschmann, California State University, Channel Islands, Camarillo, California
49. Mediterranean Definitions I
Chair:
“Whose Mediterranean? A Case of ‘Us’ and ‘Them’”
Jackie Cannon, Oxford Brookes University, and Fernando León Solís, Paisley University
“How to Teach the Mediterranean”
Melita Richter Malabotta, Università
di Trieste
“Between Braudel and the Corrupting Sea, Antiquity and the Euro-Med Partnership: Which Mediterranean is the Real, Which the Imaginary?”
Jamil Brownson, United Arab Emirates University
50. Mediterranean
Definitions II
Chair
“Otranto: punto d’incontro e scontro tra Est e
Ovest mediterraneo”
Elettra Ercolino, Université de Provence Aix-en-Provence, France
“Gruppo Preghiera: An Ethic of Wellbeing”
Sam Migliore, Kwantlen
University College, Surrey,
British Columbia, Canada
“End Game? Turkey, EU, and Cyprus”
Gul Inanc Barkay, Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta, N. Cyprus
52.
Modern Mediterranean History
Chair:
“Operation Husky in WWII and Its Aftermath: The Italian-American Perspective”
Stefano Luconi,
Universities of Padua and Pisa
“The Principles of Secularism in the Turkish Context”
Mimar S. Mah, Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey
“The Spanish Civil War: The Model Civil War of the Twentieth Century”
Michael Seidman
“Problems in the Context of the International Aspects of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
Malay Vera, Belgorod State University, Russia